History of socialism
Handouts
Databases, the catalogue, and subject guides
Expert search in library catalogue (limit by year, etc.)
Recommended article databases (more on the subject guides):
- Historical Abstracts
- Philosopher’s Index
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- Alternative Press Index
- JSTOR
- Google Scholar
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Multimedia
(examples)
- Labour History.net: A few images for 1800-1900
- International Institute of Social History
- Images from siege and commune of Paris (From Northwestern)
Tertiary sources
(examples)
- “Marxism and Radical History.” Encyclopedia of European Social History. Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Blackwell Online, especially Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Example search: labor movement socialism
- “Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914.” The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge Histories Online.
Primary sources
Nineteenth Century Masterfile is an online compilation of several indexes to periodical which were originally published prior to 1925. Together, these indexes cover most of the English-language journals published during the 19th century. Subject coverage includes: culture and intellectual life, religion, and law.
Newspapers from the Center for Research Libraries. These could be sent to McGill on microfilm
Gale digital collections (include many newspapers)
Links to digital repositories (from Northwestern)
EuroDocs: Links to European digital collections
Fordham’s Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
